Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retarded complexes were cut out of the gel , incubated with PAGE-running buffer for 3 minutes at 60 C and separated on 10% polyacrylamide gels ( 18 ) . |
| 2 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 3 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 4 | The Swiss proved to be ferocious fighters , and in 1415 the Habsburgs were driven out of the Aargau , but although Aarau was allowed to keep the rights granted by the Habsburgs , it was soon clear to the Argovians that Swiss victory merely meant they had exchanged one landlord for another . |
| 5 | Mr Browning , who believes the bronzes were smuggled out of the country and later bought by the galleries , said that he felt he had been ‘ led up the garden path ’ . |
| 6 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 7 | These were brought back to school and curtains and rugs were cut out of the fabrics for the house , each being labelled as to the fibre , eg wool , cotton , silk , polyester , nylon . |
| 8 | He said a 130lb sheat-fish was hauled out of the Dnepr one time . |
| 9 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 10 | In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group . |
| 11 | The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section . |
| 12 | A study was carried out of the behaviour of … |
| 13 | The car was hauled out of the river and Tania 's body was discovered inside . |
| 14 | The spreader arrived and the boat was edged out of the marina and into Plymouth Sound . |
| 15 | Labour leader John Smith , in Question Time exchanges on freedom of information , demanded to know the cost to Britain of the ‘ fiasco ’ of Black Wednesday , when the pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 16 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 17 | Run-of-mine-material was brought out of the mine in horse drawn mine waggons ( sometimes it was carted ) and tipped onto sloping grizzleys of strong iron bars set apart to allow an undersize of 4 in . |
| 18 | RESIDENTS in Billingham were warned today of the possibility of increased background noise from an ICI plant over the next few weeks . |
| 19 | Strange couplings and odd noises were rising out of the performances in the dungeon . |
| 20 | Closed basins as deep as 135 feet were bitten out of the underlying basalt . |
| 21 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 22 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 23 | CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare . |
| 24 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |
| 25 | Paul Rotha was amongst those who argued that crime films did much to change the whole basis of film technique ; now the pace was to be crisper , there was more naturalism , and dialogue was lifted out of the ‘ doldrums of the photographed play ’ . |
| 26 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 27 | The British Museum was founded out of the proceeds of such a lottery . |
| 28 | They heard the siren and were at the entrance ready to take over as soon as the boy was carried out of the ambulance . |
| 29 | Periodically Utrillo was allowed out of the asylum for a few days and occasionally he escaped . |
| 30 | To a large extent the Unity Campaign was passing out of the control of the Socialist League into that of the Left Book Club and the weekly Tribune , founded by Cripps in January 1937 . |